Allow import of big gitlab projects

[Gredin67]

Describe the bug

trying to import a gitlab project, I get 413 Request Entity Too Large although the file weights 477M and the limit in /etc/gitlab/gitlab-persistent.rb is nginx['client_max_body_size'] = "1000m"
I also tried adding client_max_body_size 500m; in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

[kay0u]

After changing the file gitlab-persistent.rb did you launch the command:

sudo gitlac-ctl reconfigure

And after changing the file /etc/nginx/conf.d/you.gitlab.domain.d/gitlab.conf (not /etc/nginx/nginx.conf), did you reload the nginx config with:

sudo systemctl reload nginx

[farvardin]

hello @kay0u

thanks a lot for the hint about /etc/nginx/conf.d/you.gitlab.domain.d/gitlab.conf

it seems to do the trick for me...

First I was modifying
/etc/yunohost/apps/gitlab/conf/nginx.conf instead (it's the only relevant file I got from a mlocate search for nginx.conf)

What are the difference between the 2 files? They look similar, except for the part I've altered and a thing about proxy_pass.

What is the use of /etc/yunohost/apps/gitlab/conf/nginx.conf if it's not parsed as expected?

[kay0u]

Hi @farvardin

You're not supposed to modify the files in /etc/yunohost/apps/. It represents the package used during the install/upgrade of this app and it's mainly used for the backup/restore process of the app.